"...the Lakota people do not wish to have the Francis Jansen
sculpture as part of this
Bill. The
people were not consulted about this sculpture and no one connected with
the Wounded Knee community or actual landowners authorized such a
sculpture. Should the Park Service insist on locating the sculpture on
Wounded Knee lands, the Lakota Nation now and forever disavows any
obligation to maintain, protect, and/or preserve such sculpture."
Wounded Knee Landowners Association...

[The] "Bigfoot Claims Council was chartered by an act of Congress in
1920 or thereabouts, and the Wounded Knee Survivors Association (WKSA)
was formed in just the last 10-12 years. The WKSA has lost all
credibility and nobody pays attention to them anymore. They are no
longer a viable and chartered organization. They lost credibility when
their president demonstrated herself to be a bragger and loud-spoken and
adopted the traits of greed and so forth. Therefore, when the WKSA says
they are for something, then there is always a motive behind it
(acceptance, publicity, money) and they speak for nobody but themselves
and their own financial concerns. So, the WKSA wants the statue to meet
their own interests, but the landowners and traditional Lakota people do
not want this thing at our sacred site. We don't want this statue or
the park."